[jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 13:46:15 -0500 (EST)
Reporting back, I found that I was using an older jfwapi.dll on the
64-bit computer, one my application had installed in its program folder
on the user's computer. I modified the application (EdSharp or FileDir)
to use the jfwapi.dll in the JAWS program folder instead, and that
worked. Strangely, the COM technique of producing speech worked on
32-bit machines but not on the 64-bit one of the user (I do not have my
own to test with yet).
So, both EdSharp and FileDir now produce direct speech on 64-bit
computers using the jfwapi.dll that ships with that version of JAWS.
Jamal
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:58:27 -0500 (EST)
> From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
>
> Thanks, Doug! By the way, I did searches of all JFW documentation,
> including fsdn.chm, and found no references to this object model.
>
> If anyone has a 64-bit computer, I'm interested in feedback on
> compatibility of EdSharp
> http://EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe
>
> FileDir
> http://EmpowermentZone.com/dirsetup.exe
>
> and/or JAWS Script Exchange
> http://EmpowermentZone.com/jsxsetup.exe
>
> I do not have access to such a computer myself at present. A user
> reported crashes in Edsharp and FileDir, which I narrowed to use of
> jfwapi.dll for direct speech messages. In the March 4 versions of
> EdSharp and FileDir that I posted today, the COM object model is used
> instead. I'm curious whether that resolves the problem. A test, for
> example, is to press Alt+P in EdSharp, which should speak the full path
> of the current document (more than the file name in the title bar).
>
> These applications have a checkbox at the end of their installation
> processes which offer JAWS scripts to fine tune speech in ways that I
> could not do otherwise. The checkbox is off by default, since other
> screen readers may not want them. I'm curious, if the checkbox is marked,
> whether the scripts are successfully installed on a 64-bit computer, or
> whether an error message results. A bundled copy of jsx.exe is used for
> this. You can test whether EdSharp or FileDir scripts are loaded by
> pressing JAWSKey+Q (the standard key for this) when EdSharp or FileDir is
> active.
>
> Jamal
>
> > Date: Wed,
> 4 Mar 2009 11:31:00 -0500 > From: Doug Lee <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
> >
> > VBScript:
> > dim o : set o = createObject("FreedomSci.JawsApi")
> > o.sayString "Hello", False
> >
> > Summary of FSAPI.dll COM interface (JAWS 10 as reference):
> > function Disable as Bool
> > function Enable(Bool vbNoDDIHooks) as Bool
> > method Enable
> > function RunFunction(BStr FunctionName) as Bool
> > Tells JAWS to execute a function
> > function RunScript(BStr ScriptName) as Bool
> > Tells JAWS to execute a script
> > function SayString(BStr StringToSpeak[, Bool bFlush = True]) as Bool
> > Instructs JAWS to speak a particular string
> > sub StopSpeech
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:11:51AM -0500, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> > A while back I asked how to do this but got no reply. Doug Lee informed
> > me on this list that there is a COM API that is part of a JAWS
> > installation. Previously, I had only known of a way for an application to
> > produce a speech message through JAWS by using a Win32 type of call to
> > JFWAPI.dll.
> >
> > Although I did find references to a COM object model using a COM browser,
> > I could not figure out how to instantiate and use such an object. Can
> > anyone tell me how an application, other than JAWS, can call a COM method,
> > passing it a string, to produce a speech message through the currently
> > running JAWS?
> >
> > This has become more important because JFWAPI.dll does not seem to
> > work under 64 bit Windows.
> >
> > Jamal
> >
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